Swallowed by the Great Land And Other Dispatches

Nonfiction short stories that pull you into the lives of those living in an otherworldly place; Seth Kantner received a Whiting Award naming him one of the nation's top-ten emerging writers; Publisher’s Weekly called the author’s 2004 debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, "a tour de force". When Seth Kantner’s novel, Ordinary Wolves, was published 10 years ago, it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his large subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race.

Swallowed by the Great Land And Other Dispatches from Alaska's Frontier.“Seth Kantner illuminates an Alaska most of us will never know.” –Andrea Barrett, author of Ship Fever and The Voyage of the Narwhal;